Adam29 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 9:09 am
bamber678 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:09 pm
Think it’s all about perspective. Outspending clubs with a budget of 200-300k in NL and outspending football league clubs with a budget of upwards 2-3 million is quiet a difference for a team in the league below.
So you telling me that when Andy Cook was released by Grimsby he wouldn’t have had bigger clubs than us looking at him - yet signed for us in the conference north
Jason Walker the same?
It’s the way of football, clubs with more money than others will spend it, we’ve done it in the past and it’s happened to us a good few times too
So what you’re basically saying is you’re happy when we are doing it but you hate it when other clubs do?
From what I can gather in this case the thing was initiated by the player and once that happens commercial forces then tend to take over. The best option - Quigley stays - is not available any more and it then becomes about the best deal. Thats just how this business works.
There is a certain irony in that money is now being thrown about like confetti by two NL clubs in Wrexham and Stockport both of whom have very nearly been bankrupted in the recent past by financial mismanagement but in football you dont always pay for your past mistakes. Sometimes it is claimed that money is destroying the football pyramid but in reality the supply of money is probably the only thing keeping the pyramid alive. The fact that some have more of it than others helps perpetuate the sterotypical way that clubs are run but is just the by-product of the system we operate. Indeed so ingrained into the business culture of football is the free flow of short-term finance that without it many of the EFL/NL clubs would simply not now exist. Some may be of the opinion that greed is good others that it is simply not fair. But its what we have and you cant really blame clubs or players for exploiting ithe system's "weaknesses" for their own benefit.
The only place I draw the line is where the sudden injection of wealth into a small number of clubs creates forces that ultimately challenge the partiality of rules and regulations within a League. To me this is much more threatening than a clubs current liquidity. Its of particular concern in the NL where the administrative cohesion and structures have really broken down over the last couple of years with the NL being essentially propped up by the FA. As a result there is a definite split appearing between the haves and have nots and this inevitably creates political advantage to a small number of clubs.
So while I dont think you will or perhaps should try to radically change the financial models that drive football simply because the cure would kill so many clubs I am in favour of independent regulation of "elite" football to ensure that financial advantage cannot be translated into political influence. None of this would've prevented Quigley from seeking a more lucrative future for himself though. We have to put this disappointment to bed.
